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S.  R.  A. — B.  S.  17.  December  10,  1917. 

United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

BUREAU   OF   BIOLOGICAL   SURVEY. 
E.  W.  Nelson,  Chief  of  Bureau. 


SERVICE  AND  REGULATORY  ANNOUNCEMENTS. 


REGULATION  TO  PREVENT  DESTRUCTION  OF  GAME  BY  DOGS 
ON  THE  KENAI  PENINSULA,  ALASKA. 

Whereas  dogs  are  running  at  large  on  the  Kenai  Peninsula  within 
the  districts  inhabited  by  game  animals  and  are  destroying  such  ani- 
mals and  their  young;  and 

Whereas  it  is  important  at  this  time  to  prevent  unnecessary  de- 
struction of  game  animals  which  furnish  a  supply  of  meat  in  Alaska: 

Now,  therefore,  by  virtue  of  authority  conferred  upon  the  Secre- 
tary of  Agriculture  by  section  2  of  the  act  of  May  11,  1908  (35  Stat., 
102),  entitled  "An  act  to  amend  an  act  entitled  'An  act  for  the  pro- 
tection of  game  in  Alaska,  and  for  other  purposes,'  approved  June  7, 
1902,"  the  following  regulation  is  made  and  published  to  take  effect 
November  1,  1917 : 

REGULATION  1.— preventing  destruction  of  game  by  dogs  on  the  kenai 

peninsula. 

Killing  moose  and  caribou  with  dogs,  allowing  moose  and  caribou 
to  be  killed  by  dogs,  allowing  moose  and  caribou  to  be  killed  for  f 0(  >d 
for  dogs,  or  permitting  dogs  to  hunt  moose  and  caribou  on  the  Kenai 
Peninsula  is  hereby  prohibited  for  a  period  of  two  years.  No  dogs 
shall  be  allowed  to  run  at  large  or,  unless  accompanied  by  or  under 
the  immediate  control  of  their  owners  or  custodians,  shall  be  allowed 
on  the  Kenai  Peninsula  outside  the  immediate  vicinity  of  the  towns 
of  Hope,  Kenai,  Roosevelt,  Seldovia,  Seward,  and  Sunrise.  For  the 
purposes  of  this  regulation  the  immediate  vicinity  of  the  towns  shall 
be  considered  to  mean  one  mile  in  any  direction  from  the  post  office. 

In  testimony  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  caused  the 
seal  of  the  Department  of  Agriculture  to  be  affixed  this  19th  day  of 
October,  1917. 

[^r'Vn^^siE^^      \  D.  F.  Houston, 

\         Secretary  of  Agriculture. 

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